SYNOPSIS:

In a newly liberated French town,
Saunders is reluctant to accept the ministrations of a courageous thirteen-year-old girl,
whose one ambition is to serve the troops as a nurse. Despite Sanders' sometimes cruel
resistance to her, Claudine grows deeply attached to him, and he to her. During a battle
outside town, she risks her life to bring Saunders medical aid on the line.

REVIEW:

"The Little Carousel" is a special episode for
me. When I saw this as a child, I was devastated. I cried myself to sleep that night and
remembered exact dialogue decades later. As a little girl who wanted to be a nurse, I
strongly identified with the girl in the story.

Bernard McEveety directed another superb episode in "The Little Carousel."
Morrow runs the range of emotions in this C bitterness,
anger, frustration, joy, exultation, love. Saunders fell in love with this little girl who
healed not only his body, but his soul. Sylvian Margolle, as the little nurse Claudine, is
a sweet breath of life amid the war. Saunders' carefully groomed, hard-bitten facade falls
away when he gives in to something he had almost forgotten existed - pure joy.

At the end, the stoic Saunders openly shows his agonizing grief in a primal scream,
oblivious to his men around him.

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